Support Notes for Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 4.
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About This Document This document provides information specific to the installation and support of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) AS 4.7 on HP Integrity Servers. Intended Audience This document is intended for system administrators responsible for installing, configuring, and managing Linux. Administrators must have knowledge of operating system concepts, commands, and configuration. Knowledge of Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) concepts is also helpful.
latest version of this document online, see Support Notes for Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 4.7 for HP Integrity Servers: http://www.docs.hp.com/en/5992-4210/index.html Manufacturing Part Number Supported OS Supported Versions Edition Number Publication Date 5992-4210 RHEL AS RHEL AS 4.7 E0808 August 2008 Related Information — The Red Hat website: http://www.redhat.com — The HP Integrity server family Red Hat Enterprise Linux for HP Integrity Servers Overview & features website: www.hp.
Support Contacts To obtain product or technical support for RHEL on HP Integrity servers, refer to the contact information provided on your HP support agreement. To expedite the support process, please be prepared to provide your Service Agreement Identifier (SAID) number, which can be found on your HP support agreement and verifies your support entitlement to RHEL. Your HP support agreement (including your SAID number) is sent to you within 30 days of the purchase of your RHEL subscription.
1 Support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 4.7 This support note provides the additional installation and support information for the use of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) AS 4.7 on HP Integrity servers. This chapter provides the support and certification information related to RHEL AS 4.7 on HP Integrity servers. RHEL AS 4.7 Certification and Support Information HP has certified RHEL AS 4.7 for the Intel® Itanium Processor® (kernel-2.6.9-78.EL; glibc-2.3.4-2.41) on HP Integrity servers.
2 Operating System Installation This chapter describes how to prepare your server for operating system (OS) installation, install the RHEL AS 4.7 OS on your HP Integrity server, and obtain OS updates directly from Red Hat. Installation Preparation Before you begin installing RHEL AS 4.7 operating system (OS) on your HP Integrity server, ensure that you have obtained: • all necessary installation documentation, and • the RHEL AS 4.7 for the Intel® Itanium® Processor installation media set.
Follow the instructions provided to download and use the RHEL AS 4.7 ISO images for the 64-bit Intel Itanium architecture. See the RHEL Documentation website at https://www.redhat.com/ docs/manuals/enterprise/ for a list of related RHEL AS 4.7 documents. Methods of Operating System Installation The are two methods that can be used to install RHEL AS 4.7 on your HP Integrity server as follows. NOTE: Installation of RHEL AS 4.
Registering Software and Getting Updates from Red Hat Network Ensure you have the most current version of software from the Red Hat Network, including patches for bug fixes, using the following instructions: 1. Install RHEL AS 4.7 on your system and reboot. 2. Log in as root on the console. 3. Using the registration card number that came with your RHEL AS 4.7 media, run the rhn_register command to register your system and create an account with Red Hat Network.
3 Recommendations, Limitations, and Known Issues This chapter contains recommendations, limitations, and known issues with the use of RHEL AS 4.7 on HP Integrity servers. Recommendations The following recommendations from HP for using RHEL AS 4.7 on HP Integrity servers should be observed. • Drivers for Fibre Channel cards HP recommends that you install HP provided drivers for use with HP-branded Fibre Channel cards. To obtain the HP drivers for these cards: 1. Go to the HP website at http://www.hp.
Console • System appears to hang during installation or boot If the system appears to hang during boot or installation, messages similar to the following are displayed: Loading initrd initrd-2.6.9-68.EL.img...done This can occur when the firmware setting for the primary console is not set correctly for the console device being used.
2. Signal the init process to re-read the inittab file with the following command: kill -HUP 1 3. If you are logged in to the console, exit then log in again to restart the agetty process. Installation • Installation failure when using autopartition The installation of RHEL AS 4.7 might fail if using the autopartition function on a server with multiple disks. If you encounter this issue, remove all disks from the server except those on which you are installing RHEL AS 4.7.
Until this issue is resolved in the MPT driver, HP recommends that you use the EFI executable, cfggen.efi, utility to create volumes. If cfggen is installed on a system running RHEL4U7, the HP Support Pack installer will remove it. For information about using the cfggen.efi utility, see the SmartSetup Scripting Toolkit Deployment Guide: http://www.docs.hp.com/en/5991-6250/ • Possible MCA with some ELILO bootloader options The ELILO bootloader can pass command-line options to the RHEL kernel.
3. — Enter the reset command. HP Smart Setup The HP Smart Setup utility can be used to automatically configure your server's ACPI settings. For specific instructions, see the HP Integrity Essentials Foundation Pack for Linux User's Guide: http://www.docs.hp.com/en/5992-3193/index.
Software • 32-bit emulation and other 32-bit functionality The 32-bit emulation is not automatically installed with RHEL AS 4.7. To obtain this functionality, install the ia32el package from the RHEL AS 4 for Itanium Extras Disc. You can install any additional compatibility binaries needed from the RHEL AS 4.7 Compatibility Layer Disc. For instructions, see the RHEL AS 4 Release Notes as described in “Installation Documentation” (page 8).
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